NSW public housing official allegedly told woman she would get a home faster if she had sex with him

Exclusive: woman says she was desperate' to find a home for her and her child and was preyed' on by the staffer

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Police are investigating a Homes New South Wales employee, who is alleged to have propositioned a woman on the waitlist for public housing, claiming that if she had sex with him he would arrange for her and her child to get into a home faster.

The woman, who is a survivor of domestic violence and had fled in order to escape her ex-partner, said the man sent her explicit text messages from his work phone and picked her up to take her for sexual encounters in his work car.

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